Monday: Prepare your argument for the in-class essay
Tuesday: Go back to your Plato and Aristotle essays from last year, and copy down the thesis from each paper to bring to class. Also, read Atticus Finch's closing statement from To Kill a Mockingbird
Wednesday: Pick Passage for Memorize and Deliver 2 and Begin Memorization
Thursday: Practice for Memorize and Deliver 2
Friday: Read and Annotate MLK's Letter From a Birmingham Jail
Monday: Read and annotate Federalist 10
Tuesday: Work on Memorization and Delivery
Wednesday: Write 5 sentences evaluating the class performance. How did it go? How did you prepare? What would you do differently in preparation or execution next time?
Thursday: Prepare your argument for the in-class essay
Friday: Go back to your Plato and Aristotle essays from last year, and copy down the thesis from each paper to bring to class. Also, read Atticus Finch's closing statement from To Kill a Mockingbird
Monday: Read and annotate Homer’s Embassy to Achilles. Focus annotations on identifying instances of appeals to Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.
Tuesday: Work on Memorization and Delivery
Wednesday: Read and annotate MLK’s I Have a Dream
Thursday: Read MLK again and write 5 sentences summarizing his argument and 5 sentences summarizing any arguments that he refutes.
Friday: Work on Memorization and Delivery